Second breakfast

Meal times in Chile are quite different from Canada. Breakfast seems to be at a normal time while lunch is between 1-3 pm. Next comes "las once" (elevensies) at 5-7 pm. Dinner is then around 10 pm. It's quite something to see kids a a restaurant, wide awake, at 10:30 while the other half of me is barely awake. It has been quite an ordeal to go to dinner at a somewhat reasonable hour (7 pm) when restaurants don't even open till 8:30. We often arrive at the restaurant too early and pace outside the restaurant doors, peeking through the windows. The waiters act like cockroaches that have had a light turned on, scurrying madly to get away from "our" gaze. I imagine Lori is like a zombie, banging at restaurant doors trying to get in, frantically trying to get something to eat. She turns into mindless creature, caring for nothing else except the next meal. I've gotten into the habit of ordering a fresh fruit juice for Lori as the waiter seats us, to buy the waiter some time in delivering the main course.

I don't know how much longer I can last before she starts eating me. I'm mostly just ecstatic that I wake up the next morning. If i dont make it back ... Tell my family I love them... Tell them I tried my best...